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Pipe politics, contested waters : embedded infrastructures of millennial Mumbai

By: Bjorkman, Lisa.
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2015Description: xi, 281 p. ; ill., 23 cm.ISBN: 9780822359692.Subject(s): Water-supply | Waterworks | Infrastructure, Economics | Politics and government | India, Mumbai | Antiprivatization protests | Bhatsa dam projects | Marketization | Neoliberalism | Public-private Infrastructure Advisory | Slum areas | Transferable development rights (TDR) | Vision Mumbai report | Water billing | Water mafias | Urban water supplyDDC classification: 363.610954792 Summary: In Pipe Politics, Contested Waters, Lisa Björkman explores why water is chronically unavailable in Mumbai, India's economic and financial capital. She attributes water shortage to economic reforms that allowed urban development to ignore the water infrastructure, which means that in Mumbai, politics is often about water.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

In Pipe Politics, Contested Waters, Lisa Björkman explores why water is chronically unavailable in Mumbai, India's economic and financial capital. She attributes water shortage to economic reforms that allowed urban development to ignore the water infrastructure, which means that in Mumbai, politics is often about water.

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